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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Country Women and the Colour Bar: Grassroots activism and the Country Women's Association

Country Women and the Colour Bar: Grassroots activism and the Country Women's Association

Jones, Jennifer

Paperback

Native American HistoryIndigenous StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1925302962
ISBN13: 9781925302967
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
Published: Oct 1 2015
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Country women and the colour bar is a timely corrective to established ideas about race relations in rural New South Wales. It reveals the untold story of grassroots efforts by Aboriginal and white women working together to make significant gains for Aboriginal communities prior to Aboriginal people's widespread access to citizen's rights. In the 1950s and 1960s, in towns across New South Wales, specially created Aboriginal branches of the Country Women's Association were established. Country women and the colour bar offers insights into the experience of ordinary Aboriginal and white rural women as they participated in beauty contests, cookery, handicraft lessons and baby contests. It reveals how Aboriginal assimilation policy met everyday reality as these rural women broke the rural colour bar in an unprecedented fashion and fostered cooperative campaigns for meaningful change in race-relations. Some prominent Australians feature in these extraordinary stories: Jessie Street, Charles Perkins, Rachel Mundine and Purth Moorhouse.

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